why not abide by harry truman's words? what's the motivation?arry truman might be a little cranky about this but i think he's someone who didn't take himself as seriously. he didn't have a huge ego. he was a man that walked to the station when he left the presidency and would walk back home, with go on vacations with his wife and his family in the car. and by the way, i think i'm going to have a lot of bipartisan support. i've watched republicans for year claim the truman mantle for straight talk and guts and courage. eleanor holmes norton, she reached out to us and said she wanted to co-sponsor it. i've not yet had a republican say to me they didn't think it was a good idea. this is deserving. i think people forget some of. courageous decisions harry trumman made. >> i am a huge fan of always having a president get something here because i think it's at a minimum, i can take my kid and they say, well, who is that named for? i tell them it's for this president and here's what's going on one, two and three. but do we get to the point where we ove

truman, signed the bills into law.icaid covered the health care costs of millions of low-income people. we asked henry aaron if that met our responsibilities to those who couldn't afford medical care. this wouldn't be a problem if all states provided benefits as generous as those in say the upper third or upper half of the distribution. some states provide meager medicaid benefits-- fewer than 10 days a year of hospitalization, severe limits on the number of doctor's visits one can receive-- so that even moderate illnesses may not be fully protected under the medicaid program. in addition, the population that may be served by the medicaid program in many states is quite narrowly defined. so notwithstanding the fact that medicaid is the federal health program for the poor, millions of poor americans are not covered by any benefits at all. they don't have government protection or private insurance because they're unemployed or because they work in jobs that don't provide such coverage. about 15% to 20% of the american po

harry truman. the president of the united states who relieved him, dismissed him, fired him, however you want to put it, the brought them back to the united states. he was a great hero, standing ovation in the u.s. congress, and then as macarthur himself put it, faded away like every old soldier. in a recent, very unofficial opinion poll, macarthur was listed as our worst military leader, ahead of, get this, benedict arnold, the trader. so when i begi began this book d to try to figure out how to present these contradictions in a very complex character. and i decided to do it by doing what historians don't normally do. instead of casting the main shadow forward as to how we understand him now, i cast his shadow back. and if you cast macarthur's shadow back, if you see them as he most recently was going as a humiliated commander relieved by the president, then you begin to look for all of the complaints about macarthur that truman found in his previous history. and even look at any historical figure

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america did not make commitments in search of monsters to destroy instead president truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he said he was convinced that nato would serve as a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression and thereby let us get on with the real business of government and society. truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he was as he put it a simple document that if it had existed in 1914 and in 1939 would have prevented two world wars. america was committed to nato because nato would help protect vital american interests by reinforcing the unity of transatlantic security. nato would ultimately protect security and prosperity here at home with this alliance. a truth that i believe endures to this day. on the centennial of the start of world war i in the weeks before the 70s anniversary of allied landings at normandy russia's recent action in ukraine has reminded nato of its founding purpose. this prevented a clarifying moment for the transatlantic alliance. nato members must demonstrate that they are as committed to this alliance as its founding m

eisenhower thought truman was on the wrong track. ronald reagan thought the last three presidents before him had been losing the cold war, and this pattern has continued. to me, that makes the past much more like the present. we're able to see our controversies about syria and ukraine in a more meaningful historical context if we understand what a myth the past was. i should say that i wanted to make this argument with as much vividness as i could in the book with color and drama and lively stories. i assured an audience last week in california there was plenty of presidential profanity in the book. [laughter] and a woman came up to me afterwards and said, it was that presidential profanity line that head me want to buy this. [laughter] so there are many different tastes. i felt in the course of writing it that perhaps i'd gone too far when my editor called me up and said why is the prime minister of great britain with always bursting into tears on the phone with the president? he claimed this had happened six times. [laughter] and i

and there would be anything, like hari truman, why did are you drop the atomic bomb, from letters from bankers for saying thank you for your support, and him writing back, keep it have done it without you. so all sorts of things you find and you get into this mode of being in that time and that president with those people. going through just this immense amount of documents and typing it up at night, editing throughout the process, and then going on to the next location and the next president. >> were there any libraries that were -- that you deemed to be somewhat reluctant to share information? >> guest: well, until reagan actually -- from fdr through the reagan library era, there was a certain code under which everything is classified. military information, finance information, financial, personal relationships, and it's very clear and almost easy to access the information. the carter library, i went there shortly after the film ""argo"" came out and there had been a team of "argo" researchers down there before the movie looking up information about the iran hostage crisis and what h

america did not make commitments in search of monsters to destroy instead president truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he said he was convinced that nato would serve as a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression and thereby let us get on with the real business of government and society. truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he was as he put it a simple document that if it had existed in 1914 and in 1939 would have prevented two world wars. america was committed to nato because nato would help protect vital american interests by reinforcing the unity of transatlantic security. nato would ultimately protect security and prosperity here at home with this alliance. a truth that i believe endures to this day. on the centennial of the start of world war i in the weeks before the 70s anniversary of allied landings at normandy russia's recent action in ukraine has reminded nato of its founding purpose. this prevented a clarifying moment for the transatlantic alliance. nato members must demonstrate that they are as committed to this alliance as its founding m

wade eisenhower from where i went to independence missouri to look at the archives of the president truman. i started actually in austin with lbj. i find that period critical in changing the attitudes so i really just dug in deep and i didn't know. i have to submit the freedom of information act to unearth certain documents from the more recent but hadn't been unearthed it. it really took my projects too hard and spent some of her own time trying to look for documents going through the boxes that i had it's almost like a race. there could be anything in a box. it could be anything from letters about why did you drop the atomic bomb to the letters from bankers saying thank you very much for your support and writing back saying i couldn't have done it without you. there's all sorts of things you find and you get into this mold of being in the time with those people going through this and endends aroundends out for docun sort of typing everything up while you're there and then going on to the next location. >> host: were there any libraries that you deem to be somewhat reluctant to share info

bush around 2007 had the worst gallup approval numbers of any president since harry truman. barack obama, obama wins in 2008. 2012 obama actually is the first president in history -- though he was the first democrat, i believe, since lbj to get over 50% of the vote. but in 2012 he was elected with, first president, first president to do this, elected with less popular votes and electoral college votes in his re-election. reagan won 49 out of 50 states. >> his re-election, obama won 26. bare majority. and if you look at a map of counties, right, under reagan it was a sea of red. under obama it was still a sea of red. if you look, if you look at counties. and speaking, speaking of obama, there was a poll done in 2013 after the 2013, after the second inaugural which asked americans if ronald reagan were to run today against barack obama, who would you vote for? they said reagan by 58% over obama. and that's right after obama's reelection. in 2013. here's really fascinating. how was obama elected principally? the youth vote, right? the youth vote. that same poll they asked peopl

weiss is still existing under truman getting subsidies to cronies and president truman. this was the problem republicans had. finally when eisenhower gets in to abolish the reconstruction finance corp. and you set up the small business administration which is activated to give subsidies to small business republicans. it becomes a republican tool so both political parties from hoover to roosevelt to truman and eisenhower have a stake in this. a chapter would call the d.c. subsidy issue and the d.c. subsidy machine is set up massive subsidies go out in the function of purpose and the effects of the subsidies their effect is disastrous. >> host: i was particularly interested to know that the roosevelt administration tend to use the subsidized loans to bribe newspaper editors to write nice things about them. i'm sorry to say my career as a newspaper man i've never been offered such a thing. the other active i thought -- >> guest: the 30s and 40s. >> host: there is more scope for my particular talent but in the purchase of we have seems similarly enough last couple of years w

dwight eisenhower from where i went to independence missouri to look at the archives of president truman. i started actually in austin with obj and i went back several times throughout the period of research because i found that period very critical in terms of relationships into changing attitudes in america between the presidency and bankers and the citizens and so forth. and i really just dug in deep and i did as well but i would find in some cases i had to submit acts to unearth certain documents for the more recent presidents of it hasn't been unearthed yet and in some cases for example the ronald reagan library in california the archive really kind of took my projects to hard and spent some of her own time really trying to look for documents for me as i was sitting there going through the boxes i had you research they bring out the boxes and it is almost like a race. you know, you're going through the boxes what can i find. and there can be anything. so it could be anything from letters about, you know, why did you drop the atomic bomb letter is from bankers saying thank you very m

truman joined the treaty because he was convinced nato would shield against aggregation and the fear of aggression and let us get on with the real business of society at home. truman joined the north atlantic treaty that was a simple document and it it was in 1914 and 1939 it would have prevented two world wars. america was committed to nato because nato would help protect american interest by reinforcing transatlantic security. nato would protect us here at home. a truth i believe endures to this day. on the memory of the world war one and weeks before the anniversary of landing at normandy, russia's action are reminding nato of its founding purpose. it has presented a clear moment for the transatlantic alliance. nato members must show they are as committed to the alliance as the founding members were who built it. they must align with the heart of the alliance and reinvigorate joint planning and capability that is the life blood. and reafirm from the mediterranean to the baltics that allies are allies. nato is ending combat in afghanistan later this year. the longest process in the

is truman project fellow joel henning. reports of pre-filled out ballots, violence, in one city, the government of kiev calling it a disaster. what do you make of it? >> in terms of post-soviet elections in this part of the world, they are often messy, the idea of multiple people casting votes is commonplace. by that standard, this is, of course, an incredible farce, and it's one that certainly is not going to be recognised by anyone outside the region. i think it's been conducted under rare chaotic conditions. i think the important message is to think about where things go from here, particularly with respect to the national ukranian schedule for the end of this month. >> what do you think it means for the ukranian national elections coming up? >> to the extent that the kiev government is not able to exercise control or influence over this part of the country does not seem to play a lot of the important functions of a sovereign state. an election across the country is risky at this point. it's hard to cop sieve of it bein

in antidote -- in antidote to the fear of aggression that president truman warned against in 1994.t will and were into the century and the next century. but only if nations on both sides of the atlantic seas this thisfying moment -- sieze for a fine moment. eisenhower was inaugurated as the 34th president of the u.s. theas as war weary as american public and people over the world. he had written to his wife, ma mie, that he wondered how so this is -- civilization can stand through it all. he would lie awake at night and acknowledge there was one not one part of his body that did insisted america had to remain engaged in the world. he said no nation prosecutor to you or well-being can be achieved in isolation. in 1957, eisenhower returns to paris. at thein his address first nato summit, he connected the transatlantic commitments to the vitality of our factories and mills. our trading centers on farms and businesses. to our right at home. home.our rights at our rights to think freely and pray freely. those who doubt our commitment to a broad should consider that freedom. we must reme

if you don't like the heat, they're channelling harry truman here, stay out of the kitchen. well, this dreadful cam feign of personal attack suck succeed? will it drive the democrats' best hope from the field even before the battle? or will it shape the battlefield once he enters it, putting her on the nasty defensive from the day and hour she formally announces? that's all for history to decide. right now in may of 2014, the right is ganging up, turning its flame throwers on the person they expect to face an open rivalry. but a target they can hit now with impunity, knowing shellacs the quick reacting war room that served bill clinton so well when he first ran for president. the hard question tonight is the american right softening up its target for 2016? or is it simply putting its fears on display, building uphillry clinton while it tries to level her? in either case, some of the same people who brought you preventive war in iraq are bringing you preventive war with hillary clinton. two great guests with a question. howard and stephanie, this week i began to notice the or

. -- harry truman. they dismissed him are fired him or however you put it and brought him back to the united states the great hero standing ovation in the u.s. congress then as macarthur himself would put it then put away like every old soldier with a very unofficial opinion poll macarthur insisted he was the worst ahead of the dick arnold. [laughter] the trader. so when i began this book i tried to figure out these contradictions with the complex care of dash character. instead of casting the shadow for word as to how we understand him now i cast the shadow back. if you cast it back in see him as a humiliated commander relieved by the president did you begin to look for all the complaints from his previous history. if you look for the bad things in character you will find them. what f. -- if we would look at him without that shadow? if he he ended his career on the uss missouri taking the japanese surrender? what if it had not happened? hand in shaping this outlook and i compared him with another presi

truman. guest: bolivia -- 2 parts to your question. partisan structural adjustment -- one part is structural adjustment. there are 2 things you want to do to help a country, reform the program. one has to do with making the bills work better, have the money to pay the bills. the other is to try to change the structure of the economy so that the problems you got into are not repeated. the fund has changed the way it approaches that nowadays. they are not conditions for the loans, they are called benchmarks for the loans. the country wants to sell some state owned enterprises and we plan to sell 3 of them over the next 12 months or something like that. that is a structural benchmark, as an example. bolivia is a very interesting case, and i'm glad he mentioned that. bolivia had a lot of problems -- hyperinflation in the 1980's. the program has essentially been very successful. among other things i do, i teach at williams college and i had a bolivia whoe from work at the central bank there. early career people, not college students. he was

judge truman morrison serves on the superior court of the district of columbia. for years he has advocated for bail reform. >> two-thirds of the jail population in the united states of america tonight are people awaiting trial. people who our law presumes to be innocent because they have not yet had their trial. those people have not been put there because they have been found by any process to be too dangerous or too unlikely to come back. they're almost all there simply because they don't have the money to purchase their freedom. >> we wanted to speak to inmates who find themselves in that position...but baltimore's jail refused to allow us inside. we were granted access to the second largest jail in maryland: the prince george's county detention center. >> every year, thirty thousand people pass through this facility. the ones who remain inside tend to be like samuel kayira - out of touch with family, with a history of misdemeanors. samuel was arrested for stealing from a wine store. his bail was set at two thousand dollars. >> hey, how's it going? i'm sebasti

harry truman never graduated college, and that was not too long ago. he actually joins 12 other presidents with no college degree, including abraham lincoln. and do americans really care? almost three quarters said it did not matter if a president or presidential candidate goes to a top-tier university. on the campaign trail, candidates love, love, love to talk about how they are washington outsiders. arly in the 2008 campaign, candidate's washington experience made 35% of people more likely to vote for them. now check out how those numbers have lived. yes -- have flipped. yes, stay out of washington if you can. barack obama made history becoming the first lap president, so how open are americans too further barrier breaking? a woman president? 71% said it would not matter if a candidate was female. a gay or lesbian president? 66% said this would not matter either. an atheist? well, that is a dealbreaker. if you do not believe in god, more than half of america is less likely to send you to the oval office. >> such interesting numbers and so reflective

it's a repudiation of among others presidents trumans, eisenhower, kennedy, reagan, and george h.w. bush. you can't start an honest dialogue about the implications of u.s. power in the world by making factually dishonest statements. stephanie? >> well, you know who you left out there? george w. bush who misled the nation into war in iraq, took his eye off the ball in afghanistan, mismanaged that war. we're now spending more than $2 trillion. >> the one hillary clinton voted for. >> the war we were misled into based on fault to evidence on wmd. but we can do some revisionist history there. i think this is a well-known fact. in the "crossfire," ted strickland and dr. ben carson, retired neurosurgeon and author of "one nation: what we can all do to save america's future." dr. carson, welcome. i want to pose the first question to you. >> okay. >> you heard newt criticize the president, and, you know, there is a lot of reactionary reflexive criticism that's not based on facts. i just want to point out a couple of things about the president's record on foreign policy. he has successfully

that meant it that the truman debate about whether the market to begin i will move that the market the us to the good that the market. the expense of the sand the edges economy continues to do better than many of the ten peaks. it is well on the list as that that is usually said. vista is on wednesday. we need to invest. but unless he's bred to see the sunday times on the twenty eighth seed. i was informing us that even getting seasick he let the music worship and even the dishes. the qb into the tissue grown here. i said how many should focus on morning falling as a medical condition. thus the rule if he's too good to have to die it died with a tendency to be the need to know did get the cds in defence and it comes to tennis. due to more substantive. as the economy and jobs from the day she lamented that she got me itching to kindy was one of the biggest election promises time is to shake the scene of our mommy me before the elections. the army had eighteen not out to the generations general election winning run in two types of the seats. it was me facing rejection in europe but it ha

were killed on the ground it's no longer clear who's in control the new district about two thousand truman should demonstrate his defeats the police station. some fools the way inside and demanded the release of the activists being held in a short time later police lt almost seventy of the prisoners goes. not that into listed on suspicion of provoking friday's violence that resulted in street battles and the fire in which more than forty people were killed. in eastern ukraine reports say at least one separatists was killed in finding new homes and government forces stormed a building and many of hope that this is the evidence of strong ukrainian operations in the ccs. fresh to strong hold of some the of this being some intermittent gunfire. the devils manning barricades the p a well equipped and ready to defend their positions. constantine of colson remains the separatists hands of the licence conditions with government forces. during the day rebels reclaimed the checkpoint after government troops withdrew the book don't know what was i don't know when we can win but here in the east and i

harry truman started the school lunch program because too many young people were being rejected from the military because of malnutrition. if there's a supporter bigger than the u.s. military for this program right now, i don't know who it is. we need to get healthy meals in their schools. >> i understand that. >> why on earth where you're giving $80 billion a year in food stamps and you have parents buying food for their children, and they're buying -- >> this is not food stamps. >> those are federal dollars -- guys, you are talking about -- we're talking about federal dollars -- >> we're talking about school lunches. >> federal dollars for food. right? that's what we're talking about. >> let's talk about the program from the standpoint. this is part of why the country is increasingly, i think, opposed to the federal government. these things are all implemented locally. they are local people hired in a local cafeteria run by a local -- with federal money -- but i'm just saying, if somebody locally, and it's the school nutrition people who came back and asked for this waiver. they sa

as solving a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma - that's as true today as in 1979 when truman first said it. for a granddaughter, finding the truth of her russian history tells us about the former first family of the ussr and about vladimir putin. joining us is an associate professor in a graduate programme of international fairs, and a fellow of the world policy institute and a member of the council on foreign relations. her latest book is out. tas fascinating read. you said you thought about writing a book about vladimir putin, but you couldn't do that without looking into this history first. >> absolutely. when i thought about vladimir putin, when he came in, and after we had gosho shove's promise that russia is a democracy. and over things we thought were demoaccurate, institutions were - similar institutions are being hampered, civil liberties, and all the things happened, so i wanted to write about this. i thought about the ghool ag, how we end up with dictators, with all the opportunities, reformers. i wrote this. and i thought the first man of the 20th century, trying

truman, america was not built on fear.ion to do the job at hand. quite good. all right. on wall street of record-breaking day for the market. the dow gaining 32 points to close at a new record high capacity of three : nasdaq 23, volume on the big board, just 3 billion shares. consumer discretionary and health of the best performing sectors, utility, the worst this. for the week the dow posted fractional gains. s&p and nasdaq both posting weekly losses. crude oil down $0.27 settling just below $100 per barrel. also down a fraction to close below $12.88 a 12 -- 1288 a troy else. the advertising science, publicists on the comp calling off their 35 billing to $5 billion merger. netflix shares up 2% after announcing it is raising the price of a streaming service by dollar amount. that will give its current customers that two-year reprieve. thank goodness for that. new reports says apple is close to buying higher-end had phone maker beyonce electronics for $3 billion in what would be the largest acquisition ever. it would not ju

the reconstruction financial committing is still existing giving subsidies to cronies of president truman. then it is abolished and you set-up the small business instruction which is activated to give small business republicans loans. so both political parties down the line have a stake in what the chapter we call the dc subsidy machine. it is set-up with massive subsidies go out and the function and purpose and affects of the -- the effect is disastrous. >> host: the roosevelt administration tempted a newspaper to write a good article about them with bribes. i am sorry this never happened to me. >> guest: you need to live in the 1930's and 1940's. >> host: in the purchase of a $10,000 mink coat. in 2014, a $10,000 mink coat is expensive. in 1939, that is 2-3 times the average householiday income? >> guest: yes, you are talking over a 100,000. >> hoover says we will not need to use the committee very often and it will probably only need to be around two years. >> guest: correct. >> host: reagan would say nothing touches like the government. and now the small business instruction is the mo

that's why harry truman says the buck stops here.ple that answer to you and you're responsible for it. >> he could have cancelled the summit. he could have gone to a va hospital instead. there's no pressing reason why he should have sat down to talk about football. football could have waited in my opinion. any final thoughts, coach? you hit the nail on the head. the veterans have to come first. there are so many other issues besides football. >> i agree with you completely. as i say, i'm a citizen. i'm proud of this country. i was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. i was born in this country. i was taught about responsibility and about your obligation to other people. life is a matter of making choices. when you have a staff, it's up to you to make sure they're being productive and get the problems solved. >>> coming up, have you ever gone to a barbecue and have a liberal drive you crazy when they talk about politics? next we have the perfect answers for you. that and more as "hannity" continues. rm cq, the unique patch with time

. >> mark jacobson from the truman security project.thank you. >> my pleasure. >> thailand's military leaders expect to hold elections next year. they say it will take at least a year. and the coup was necessary to stop the turmoil. but it has not stopped the protests. >>> central african republic two people were killed during violent anti-government protests at the capitol. protesters want the government to step down after it failed to stop the increase of religious fighting. they want to top the take attacks. 17 people were killed at a church. >>> in the yemen, the army is worried about being overwhelmed as it battles al-qaeda fighters. >> more government soldiers join the fight against al-qaeda. they are trying to clear strategic areas after pushing the fighters out of a town al-qaeda had been strong. in this village jets attack an al-qaeda hide out. security forces. >> terrorism is the biggest problem we confront in yemen. with the ministry of defense we implemented measures that implement the attacks. >> reporter: here a province w

marc jacobs from the truman national security project, thank you. >> thanks for having yes. >> the revolutionary armed forces of colombia turns 50 years old today, known as farc. now the fate of the group rests on next month's election. >> the semi tropical region of colombia gave burst to a rebel group made up mainly of poor farmers that would transform itself of a powerful army capable of waging war against the colombia state to this date. financed through kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking, the revolutionary forces of colombia, facr, reached 20,000 combatants, and billions of dollars of u.s. military aid has reduced their numbers to roughly 1,000. farc has survived all attempts to defeat it. the first registered attack was in southwestern colombia an area where impoverished farmers, a and it was here where there was the harsh blow. >> reporter: their leader killed in an army raid three years ago. a loss that has brought the rebel group to the negotiating table. >> things have changed in this country. there is no more future in war, and that's something that the farc leadership has und

harry truman was president at that time. direct relief's number one principle is "serve people."as that involved in the last -- evolved in the economic downturn? >> it has been tough. nonprofits like our our counter cyclical. when the economy goes down, you have to do more, which is constraining. we are privately funded with charitable support. it has been a tough road, but we've been able to expand because of companies kicking in, individuals kicking in. the organization is built over 66 years, a businesslike backbone that allows us to scale up and help people when we need -- they need it. >> did that businesslike backbone included template for stuff times -- tough times like that? >> we started implementing it in 2008 and finished it in 2009, anticipating for nonprofits to deal with the scale and complexities of this, you would have to do it like a business. a good distribution backbone, a supply chain. although there is not a process -- profit motive, the same cost-saving measures are integral to what we do. >> direct relief has made its mark in serving -- -- in serving unders

sent by president truman. >> the nsa's activities were so secret that insiders joked its initials stoodor no such agency. for a generation, the nsa operated behind the scenes. for instance, the nsa provided the first evidence of questionable soviet activity during the cuban missile crisis. >> a president has nothing to hide. >> then, in the 1970s came the watergate scandal. and suddenly, americans wanted to know all about washington's secret activities. this led to the church committee in 1975. chaired by idaho senator frank church, it was charged with investigating the american intelligence community. >> the first time an nsa director was dragged screaming, kicking up to testify in a public venue about what his agency did. >> matthew aid is an intelligence historian. an author of the history of the nsa. >> it never happened before that point and it literally required something close to a subpoena. >> nsa had little to do with watergate. but it did come out that the agency had been secretly monitoring americans for decades. >> i shall resign. with the fallout of the watergate scandal as

. >> this is not harry truman's nsc. this is not eisenhower's nsc or white house advisors. this is really many, many steps down. >> and you think it hurts the overall interaction between intelligence and the white house? >> yeah. i didn't believe that this will like solid wide political implications that the nation is going to be in uproar over the fact that this person's name was leaked. i do think it will have those kind of consequences within the intelligence bureaucracy, whether it's already great skepticism of the kinds of things that the president has been saying particularly about al qaeda and the administration's treatment of the intelligence community more broadly. and that could really have real consequences for the president, for the white house that is it for the panel. stay tuned for a new spin on the term lady's man. we need it right away! we cannot let the fans down. don't worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time with priority mail flat rate shipping. our priority has always been saving the day. because our priority... amazing! ...is

. >> i really want to go to truman, and then go to high school, and then see if i can go to stanford.w what you want to be? >> i want to be a teacher. >> reporter: the residents plan to rally next monday evening before the start of the hearing. whatever the outcome, the decision can be appealed. live in palo alto, amber lee. >>> clay aiken holds a slim lead for the congressional seat in north carolina. he has 359 more votes than his opponent. he needs 40% of the vote to avoid a runoff, and currently has 40.8%. >>> the newest edition of the san francisco zoo made his debut today. the red panda is about the size of a house cat. looks more like a raccoon than a panda bear. it is named after the famous tanze norgai. they are an endangered species. it will be at a new exhibit called the red panda treehouse starting monday. >>> along the coast, it was just 58 degrees in pacifica. these are the official national weather service highs today. 7 # in livermore. 73 in antioch. temperatures tomorrow, they're going to look just like these. thursday, in terms of temperatures, what's going to be dif

is matt zeller, a united states war veteran, a truman national project fellow and co-author of no one left behind. he introduced the afghan fellows extension act. he joined us last october to discuss his fight to bring his afghan interpreter mohammad janis shinwari and his family to the u.s. he joined us with mohammad janis shinwari once he was granted a visa. matt, great to see us this, is a long fight. mohammad janis shinwari saved your life. why has this been a struggle? >> thank you for having me back, i love coming on the show. it's been a struggle for a couple of reasons. despite congress's level intention, the state department dropped the ball on implementing the programme. two, there was previous to the pictures that will happen, there was not a lot of coordination going on between the state department and the entities within the government that are responsible for adjudicating the security review of the individuals operation. every person that comes on the programs has to clear three hurdles, approve that they gave a year of faithful service to the military at war and prove b

dwight eisenhower from where i went to independence, missouri to look at the archives of president truman. i started in on it with lbj and went back several times throughout the period of research because i found that. very critical in terms of relationships and changing attitudes in america between president and bankers, citizens and president and so forth. i really just dug in deep. i didn't know what i would find. some cases i had to submit freedom of information acts to unearth certain documents for the more recent president that had not been unearthed yet. in some cases, the reagan kind of took my project to heart and spent seven of her own time really trying to look for documents for me as i was sitting there going for the boxes that i've had to meet the research they bring out cards and boxes. it is almost like a raise. you're going through the boxes. what can i find? terry chernin, anything from letters about why did you drop the atomic bomb to letters from bankers saint thank you very much for your support. 10 rating vaccine i couldn't have done it without you. there's also some

nixon's opening to china was quickly seen as historic, but harry truman's many bold decisions, nato, containment, the martial plan was one of its time. what about the current office? president obama has not made a major mistake. he has done a skillful job steering the united states out of the muddy waters of afghanistan and he resisted pushing the country into another major conflict with all the complications it would inevitably entail. but he has been less skillful at building up an edifice of achievements. he still has time to fix that. look at ukraine. but the reality is as princeton's john eikenberry has often pointed out, the world order built after the second world war continues to endure seven decades after its creation. it has outlasted challengers from soviet russia, china and most recently, radical islam. the economists' magazine this week tallies the country's 90 richest countries. 99 lean toward the united states. 59 don't. russia is not a rising global power seeking to overturn the liberal world order. it is a declining power, terrified that the few countries clustered a

harry truman never went to college. do americans really care?nmatter if the presidential candidate goes to a top university. candidates love, love, love to talk about how they're washington outsiders. early in the 2008 campaign, a candidate's washington experience made 35% of people more likely to vote for them. now check out how the numbers have flipped. yep, stay out of washington if you can. now barack obama made history becoming the first black president. 71% said it wouldn't matter if the candidate was female. a gay or lesbian president, 66% said it wouldn't matter. an atheist, well that's a deal breaker. if you don't believe in god, more than half of america is less likely to send you to the oval office. bbc news washington. >> before we go, a recap on our breaking news. that's the organization for security incorporation in europe. it said it lost contact with a second team of monitors in eastern ukraine. we'll keep following that on bbc world news. ♪ show 'em the curve. it's beautiful. it's more than that... ...it's perfect. introducing c